DeForce Family
Somewhere between the factory floor and the ballroom, the DeForce family tears the world apart at its seams.
They do not kill targets directly. They destroy them. Agents embed in worker lines, earning trust and cataloging grievances until the moment is right. Then comes the oratory: impassioned speeches that transform simmering resentment into organized revolt. Machines stop. Workers walk. An owner watches their empire collapse from the inside while a DeForce operative vanishes into the crowd. If the target dies in the resulting chaos, crushed by an angry mob they never saw turning against them, that is simply happenstance.
The family operates across two worlds simultaneously. Low-ranking members work the labor lines, gathering intelligence and stoking unrest. High-ranking members move through trade circles and social gatherings, nudging deals and alliances toward cascading failure. Communication between the two halves travels in stitched codes: targets, directives, and operational details sewn into the patterns of elaborate clothing. Read the hem of a DeForce coat and you might find a dead person's name threaded into the fabric.
Their focus on destabilization rather than direct violence makes them unusual among Murder Inc families. They are architects of collapse, not executioners. When blood needs to flow, they arrange the circumstances and let others hold the blade.
Initiation is the Scar Stitching. The family's local symbol is sewn directly into the initiate's skin, creating a scar that serves as proof of membership. When quick passage or immediate trust is needed, they show the mark. It is the only membership card that matters.
They do not kill targets directly. They destroy them. Agents embed in worker lines, earning trust and cataloging grievances until the moment is right. Then comes the oratory: impassioned speeches that transform simmering resentment into organized revolt. Machines stop. Workers walk. An owner watches their empire collapse from the inside while a DeForce operative vanishes into the crowd. If the target dies in the resulting chaos, crushed by an angry mob they never saw turning against them, that is simply happenstance.
The family operates across two worlds simultaneously. Low-ranking members work the labor lines, gathering intelligence and stoking unrest. High-ranking members move through trade circles and social gatherings, nudging deals and alliances toward cascading failure. Communication between the two halves travels in stitched codes: targets, directives, and operational details sewn into the patterns of elaborate clothing. Read the hem of a DeForce coat and you might find a dead person's name threaded into the fabric.
Their focus on destabilization rather than direct violence makes them unusual among Murder Inc families. They are architects of collapse, not executioners. When blood needs to flow, they arrange the circumstances and let others hold the blade.
Initiation is the Scar Stitching. The family's local symbol is sewn directly into the initiate's skin, creating a scar that serves as proof of membership. When quick passage or immediate trust is needed, they show the mark. It is the only membership card that matters.
Structure
The DeForce Family operates across two worlds simultaneously. Low-ranking members infiltrate worker lines and companies as labor agitators, using powerful oratory to rally workers against mistreatment and incite organized revolts. High-ranking members maintain positions among the social elite, involved in trade where they can nudge situations to cause cascading disruptions. Communication between tiers runs through coded stitching patterns embedded in elaborate clothing, with targets, mission directives, and intelligence sewn into garments. New members receive a scar stitched into their skin in the local family's symbol, serving as proof of membership.
Public Agenda
The DeForce Family exists to dismantle targets without direct assassination. Their mission is infiltration and destabilization: embed agents in a target's workforce, incite revolt from below, and manipulate trade from above until the target's empire crumbles from within. They rely on others for the bloodier work, preferring to orchestrate situations where the target is destroyed by their own angry workers or by cascading economic failures that appear to be natural consequences rather than deliberate sabotage.
History
The DeForce Family developed within the Adherents of Betrayal faction of Murder Inc as specialists in destabilization rather than direct assassination. They built their reputation by tearing apart targets from the inside: embedding agents in worker lines to organize revolts while social elite members manipulated trade situations to cause downstream havoc. The combination of ground-level labor disruption and high-level economic manipulation allowed the family to dismantle entire businesses without ever drawing a weapon.
Their methods evolved to include engineered killings through manufactured chaos, orchestrating situations like riots where angry mobs eliminate a target while the DeForce operatives remain invisible. The family's signature communication system of coded stitching concealed within ornate clothing gave them a secure intelligence network that operates in plain sight, with every elaborate coat potentially carrying a dead person's name sewn into the hem.
Their methods evolved to include engineered killings through manufactured chaos, orchestrating situations like riots where angry mobs eliminate a target while the DeForce operatives remain invisible. The family's signature communication system of coded stitching concealed within ornate clothing gave them a secure intelligence network that operates in plain sight, with every elaborate coat potentially carrying a dead person's name sewn into the hem.
Infiltrators who dismantle empires from within, embedding in worker lines and high society alike.
